对于第一个问题,你应该做的第一件事是按第二个字段排序列表:
x = [
['4', '21', '1', '14', '2008-10-24 15:42:58'],
['3', '22', '4', '2somename', '2008-10-24 15:22:03'],
['5', '21', '3', '19', '2008-10-24 15:45:45'],
['6', '21', '1', '1somename', '2008-10-24 15:45:49'],
['7', '22', '3', '2somename', '2008-10-24 15:45:51']
]
from operator import itemgetter
x.sort(key=itemgetter(1))
然后你可以使用itertools的groupby函数:
from itertools import groupby
y = groupby(x, itemgetter(1))
现在y是一个包含元素(元素,项迭代器)的迭代器。解释这些元组比显示代码更容易混淆:
for elt, items in groupby(x, itemgetter(1)):
print(elt, items)
for i in items:
print(i)
其中打印:
21
['4', '21', '1', '14', '2008-10-24 15:42:58']
['5', '21', '3', '19', '2008-10-24 15:45:45']
['6', '21', '1', '1somename', '2008-10-24 15:45:49']
22
['3', '22', '4', '2somename', '2008-10-24 15:22:03']
['7', '22', '3', '2somename', '2008-10-24 15:45:51']
对于第二部分,应该使用列表推导,如上所述:
from pprint import pprint as pp
pp([y for y in x if y[3] == '2somename'])
其中打印:
[['3', '22', '4', '2somename', '2008-10-24 15:22:03'],
['7', '22', '3', '2somename', '2008-10-24 15:45:51']]